Pentachaeta bellidiflora
Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 86. 1885.
Common names: White-rayed pentachaeta
EndemicConservation concern
Synonyms: Chaetopappa bellidiflora (Greene) D. D. Keck
Plants 6–17 cm. Stems simple or with 1–2 primary branches, glabrous or sparsely hirsuto-pilose. Leaf-blades linear, 8–45 × ca. 1 mm (glabrous or margins ciliate). Involucres campanulate. Phyllaries in 2–3 series, elliptic to obovate, glabrous. Ray-florets 5–16; corollas white, sometimes reddish-tinged abaxially, laminae 3–6 mm. Disc-florets 16–38; corollas yellow, narrowly funnelform, not contracted at lobes, lobes 5. Pappi usually of 5 bristles slightly or not dilated at bases, rarely 0.2n = 18.
Phenology: Flowering Mar–May.
Habitat: Grassy, rocky areas
Elevation: 0–700 m
Discussion
Of conservation concern.
Pentachaeta bellidiflora grows in the San Francisco Bay region.
Selected References
None.
Lower Taxa
None.
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introrse +
connate +
distinct +
herbaceous +
scarious +
hirsute +
papillate +
continuous +
absent +
decurrent +
narrowly oblanceolate;linear or filiform +
ribbed +
stigmatic +
barbellate +
tawny +
persistent +
absent +
White-rayed pentachaeta +
contracted +
absent +
monomorphic +
(3-)5-ribbed +
dimorphic +
strigose +
staminate +
Calif. +
straight +
distinct +
proximal +
1;5 +
bisexual +
dispersed +
singly +
indeterminate +
surrounding +
campanulate +
sessile +
alternate +
erect +
triangular +
hyaline +
delimited +
2-carpellate +
inferior +
attached +
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not dilated +
tough +
thick +
absent +
connate +
1-nerved +
persistent +
distinct +
herbaceous +
falling +
glabrous +
unequal +
Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. +
1885 +
pistillate +
absent +
fertile +
epaleate +
pitted +
flat;slightly convex +
fibrous +
exalbuminous +
modifed +
absent +
2;3 +
unequal +
equal +
alternate +
2-branched +
glabrous +
Pentachaeta bellidiflora +
Pentachaeta +
species +
shorter +
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